Full List of Published Dialogues
Open dialogue among individuals and among civilizations is the key to the harmonious solidarity of humankind--this conviction has motivated Ikeda to engage in dialogue with a wide range of individuals from around the world. Many of these dialogues have been published in book form.
The year in parenthesis indicates the first year of publication of each title. Tentative titles have been given where no English version exists.
1. Bunmei nishi to higashi (tentative translation: "Civilization, East and West")
with Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
Japanese (1972)
2. On the Japanese Classics
with Makoto Nemoto
English, Japanese (1974), Portuguese, Thai
3. Choose Life: A Dialogue [Link]
with Arnold J. Toynbee
Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese (1975), Korean, Laotian, Malay, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Urdu
4. Jinsei mondo (tentative translation: "On Living")
with Konosuke Matsushita
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Korean, Japanese (1975)
5. Ningen kakumei to ningen no joken (tentative translation: "Changes Within: Human Revolution vs. Human Condition")
with André Malraux
Japanese (1976)
6. Letters of Four Seasons
with Yasushi Inoue
Chinese (simplified), English, French, Japanese (1977), Malay, Thai
7. Dawn After Dark [Link]
with René Huyghe
Chinese (simplified), English, French (1980), Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
8. Before It Is Too Late [Link]
with Aurelio Peccei
Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Danish, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese (1984), Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Vietnamese
9. Human Values in a Changing World [Link]
with Bryan Wilson
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), English, French, Italian, Japanese (1985), Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
10. Dai san no niji no hashi (tentative translation: "The Third Rainbow Bridge")
with Anatoli A. Logunov
Chinese (simplified), Japanese (1987), Russian
11. Heiwa to jinsei to tetsugaku o kataru (tentative translation: "Philosophy of Human Peace")
with Henry Kissinger
Japanese (1987)
12. Humanity at the Crossroads
with Karan Singh
English, Japanese (1988), Thai
13. Search for a New Humanity [Link]
with Josef Derbolav
Chinese (simplified), English, German (1988), Japanese, Thai
14. A Lifelong Quest for Peace [Link]
with Linus Pauling
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), English, Filipino, French, Japanese (1990), Korean, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese
15. Tonko no kosai (tentative translation: "The Radiance of Dunhuang: On Beauty and Life")
with Chang Shuhong
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Japanese (1990)
16. Sekai shimin no taiwa (tentative translation: "Dialogue Between Citizens of the World")
with Norman Cousins
Japanese (1991)
17. Taiyo to daichi: Kaitaku no uta (tentative translation: "The Sun and the Good Earth: An Ode to Pioneering Japanese Immigrants")
with Ryoichi Kodama
Japanese(1991), Portuguese
18. Ode to the Grand Spirit [Link]
with Chingiz Aitmatov
English, German, Japanese (1991), Russian
19. Ningen to Bungaku o Kataru (tentative translation: "Dialogue on Humanity and Culture")
with Kenji Doi
Japanese (1991)
20. Space and Eternal Life [Link]
with Chandra Wickramasinghe
English, Japanese (1992), Portuguese
21. Kagaku to shukyo (tentative translation: "Science and Religion")
with Anatoli A. Logunov
Japanese (1994)
22. Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century [Link]
with Austregésilo de Athayde
English, Japanese (1995), Portuguese
23. Choose Peace [Link]
with Johan Galtung
English, Italian, Japanese (1995), Korean, Thai
24. Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century [Link]
with Mikhail Gorbachev
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese (1996), Korean, Russian, Slovakian
25. Taiheiyo no kyokujitsu (tentative translation: "Dawn of the Pacific")
with Patricio Aylwin Azócar
Japanese (1997), Spanish
26. Haranbanjo no Naporeon (tentative translation: "The Tempestuous Life of Napoleon")
with Philippe Moine, Patrice Morlat and Tadashige Takamura
Japanese (1997)
27. Kyokujitsu no seiki o motomete (tentative translation: "Compassionate Light in Asia")
with Jin Yong
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Japanese (1998)
28. Kodomo no sekai (tentative translation: "The Path to the Land of Children")
with Albert A. Likhanov
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Japanese (1998), Russian
29. Utsukushiki shishi no tamashii (tentative translation: "A Lion's Heart")
with Axinia Djourova
Bulgarian, Japanese (1999)
30. On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge [Link]
with René Simard and Guy Bourgeault
Chinese (traditional), English, French, Italian, Japanese (2000)
31. Global Civilization: A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue [Link]
with Majid Tehranian
Arabic, Chinese (traditional), Dutch, English, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese (2000), Persian, Thai
32. Karibu no taiyo seigi no uta (tentative translation: "Dialogue on José Martí, an Apostle of Cuba")
with Cintio Vitier
Japanese (2001), Spanish
33. Choose Hope [Link]
with David Krieger
English, Italian, Japanese (2001)
34. Distinct Encounters
with Rogelio M. Quiambao
English, Japanese (2001)
35. Sekai no Bungaku o Kataru (tentative translation: "Dialogue on World Literature")
with Tadashige Takamura and Philippe Moine; Kentaro Nishihara and Rogelio M. Quiambao; Ryohei Tanaka and Hirotomo Teranishi; Tadashige Takamura and Henry Indangasi
Japanese (2001)
36. Atarashiki jinrui o atarashiki sekai o (tentative translation: "Beyond the Century: Dialogue on Education and Society")
with Viktor A. Sadovnichy
Chinese (traditional), Japanese (2002), Russian
37. Toyo no chie o kataru (tentative translation: "Dialogue on Oriental Wisdom")
with Ji Xianlin and Jiang Zhongxin
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Japanese (2002)
38. Buddhism: A Way of Values [Link]
with Lokesh Chandra
English, Japanese (2002)
39. Kibo no seiki e takara no kakehashi (tentative translation: "The Bridge toward a Century of Hope")
with Cho Moon Boo
Korean, Japanese (2002)
40. Planetary Citizenship [Link]
with Hazel Henderson
Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), English, French, Italian, Japanese (2002), Portugese
41. Uchu to chikyu to ningen (tentative translation: "The Cosmos, Earth and Human Beings")
with Alexander Serebrov
Japanese (2004), Korean, Russian
42. Ningen to bunka no niji no kakehashi (tentative translation: "A Rainbow Bridge of Humanity and Culture")
with Cho Moon Boo
Japanese (2005)
43. Indo no seishin (tentative translation: "The Spirit of India--Buddhism and Hinduism")
with Ved Prakash Nanda
Japanese (2005)
44. Ningenshugi no dai seiki o (tentative translation: "Toward Creating an Age of Humanism")
with John Kenneth Galbraith
Japanese (2005)
45. A Dialogue Between East and West: Looking to a Human Revolution [Link]
with Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner
English, Japanese (2005), Malay, Spanish
46. Into Full Flower: Making Peace Cultures Happen
with Elise Boulding
English, Japanese (2006)
47. Revolutions: to green the environment, to grow the human heart [Link]
with M. S. Swaminathan
English (2005), Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese
48. A Quest for Global Peace [Link]
with Joseph Rotblat
Chinese (traditional), English, German, Italian, Japanese (2006)
49. Creating Waldens: An East-West Conversation on the American Renaissance [Link]
with Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson
English, Japanese (2006)
50. New Horizons in Eastern Humanism: Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace
with Tu Weiming
Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, Japanese (2007)
51. Ningen shugi no hata o (tentative translation: "Hoisting the Banner of Humanism")
with H. C. Felix Unger
Japanese (2007)
52. A Passage to Peace: Global Solutions from East and West [Link]
with Nur Yalman
English, Japanese (2007)
53. Yujo no daisogen (tentative translation: "Grand Steppes of Friendship")
with Dojoogiin Tsedev
Japanese (2007), Mongolian
54. The Persistence of Religion: Comparative Perspectives on Modern Spirituality [Link]
with Harvey Cox
Chinese (traditional), English, Japanese (2008)
55. Jindo no seiki e ganji to indo no tetsugaku o kataru (tentative translation: "Toward a Century of Humane: Exploring Gandhi and the
Philosophers of India")
with Neelakanta Radhakrishnan
Chinese (traditional), Japanese (2009)
56. Bunka to geijutsu no tabiji (tentative translation: "A Journey on the Path of Culture and the Arts")
with Jao Tsung-I
Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Japanese (2009)
57. Tenmongaku to buppo o kataru (tentative translation: "A Dialogue on Astronomy and Buddhism")
with Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão
Chinese (traditional), Japanese (2009), Portuguese
58. Jinken no seiki e no messeiji (tentative translation: "A Message to the Century of Human Rights")
with Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Japanese (2009), Spanish
59. Asu o tsukuru kyoiku no seigyo (tentative translation: "Shaping the Future: The Sacred Task of Education")
with Hans Henningsen
Danish, Japanese (2009)
60. Kyoiku to bunka no odo (tentative translation: "The Noble Path of Education and Culture")
with Chang Jen Hu
Chinese (traditional), Japanese (2010)
61. Heiwa no tetsugaku, kanyou no chie (tentative translation: "A
Philosophy of Peace, the Wisdom of Tolerance")
with Abdurrahman Wahid
Indonesian, Japanese (2010)
62. Ningen shori no shunju--rekishi to jinsei to kyoiku o kataru (tentative translation: "An Epoch of Human Triumph: A Dialogue on History, Life and Education")
with Zhang Kaiyuan
Japanese (2010)
63. Tetsugaku runessansu no taiwa (working title: "Buddhism and a Philosophy of Action on the Human Level")
with Lou Marinoff
Japanese (2010)
64. Heiwa no ashita e kyoiku no taiko--ukuraina to nihon no yujo (working title: "The Great Light of Education toward the Dawn of Peace:
Ukraine-Japan Friendship")
with Michael Z. Zgurovsky
Japanese (2011), Russian
65. Atarashiki chikyu shakai no sozo e--Heiwa no bunka to kokuren o kataru (tentative translation: "Creating a New Global Society--A Discourse on the United Nations and a Culture of Peace")
with Anwarul K. Chowdhury
Japanese (2011)
